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4001 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ships and Boats.47
… the storm there were (1) the taking on board of the ship's boat and securing it with ropes ( Acts 27:16, in which operation Luke seems to have taken part; compare …
4002 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Shower.2
… , usually storm or tempest (compare Isaiah 4:6; 28:2 ): "They are wet with the showers of the mountain" ( Job 24:8 ). (4) ombros ( Luke 12:54 ), Rain is unknown in Palestine in the …
4003 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Siege.11
(5) Storming of Walls and Rushing of Breach
4004 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Siege.21
… and storm, as Lachish was by Sennacherib ( 2 Kings 18:13; 19:8; see Layard, op cit., II, plates 20-24). The chief operations of the besiegers were as follows:
4005 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Siege.26
(5) Storming of Walls and Rushing of Breach: The culminating operation would be the storming of the walls, the rushing of the breach. Scaling-ladders were employed …
4006 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sin (1).33
… . earthquakes, storms, floods, whirlwinds, fires, etc.), whose presence does more to furnish the conditions of moral growth than to discourage that growth--are …
4007 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sinai.6
… ). Such storms occur as a rule in the Sinaitic desert only in December and January, but thunderstorms are not unknown in Palestine even in May.
4008 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Stones, Precious.47
… was stormed, and its temple plundered, by Antiochus Epiphanes; in 54 BC the temple was desecrated by Crassus. The breastplate familiar to Josephus (for he was …
4009 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tax; Taxing.33
… the "storm-tossed" (Josephus) Jews of Palestine, as of old the buffer state between contending powers. According to Josephus (Ant., XII, iii, 3), Antiochus gave the …
4010 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tempest.2
… over storm and use of the tempest in His anger: "He maketh the storm a calm" ( Psalms 107:29 ); He sends the "tempest of hail, a destroying storm" ( Isaiah 28:2 ). See also Job …
4011 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Thessalonica.10
… Tancred stormed the city, and once more a general massacre took place. In 1204 Thessalonica became the center of a Latin kingdom under Boniface, marquis of …
4012 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Thunder.2
… winter storms of Syria and Palestine and occurs in the extra-season storms. Thunder accompanied the storm of hail in Egypt at the time of the plagues: "The Lord …
4013 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tongues of Fire.3
… the storm rushes, but there was no wind. It was the sound that filled the house, not a wind. It was an invisible cause producing audible effects. Next, the eye was …
4014 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tongues, Confusion of.9
… to storm the dwelling of the gods, and, as a matter of fact, the two accounts seem to be combined in Sib Or 3:97-104.
4015 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Trachonitis.3
… a storm, had been suddenly petrified. .... At times we passed over vast sheets of lava which in cooling had cracked in nearly regular lines, and which, broken through …
4016 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Untempered.3
… rain storm.
4017 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Vapor.2
… the storm that cometh up." (4) qiTor: "fire and hail, snow and vapor" ( Psalms 148:8 ); elsewhere, "smoke": "The smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace" ( Genesis 19:28 …
4018 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Violence, Violent.2
… storm of ill-advised insurrection," "the Pharisees have shamefully used forcible suppression of God's teachers," "the Kingdom of God comes like a storm and …
4019 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Whirlwind.3
Storms usually come from the Southwest. "Out of the .... south cometh the storm" ( Job 37:9 ); yet in Ezekiel's vision he saw a whirlwind coming out of the north ( Ezekiel …
4020 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Abimelech.5 (William Smith)
… he stormed and took Thebez, but was struck on the head by a woman with the fragment of a millstone, comp. 2 Samuel 11:21; and lest he should be said to have died by …